"It is exquisite," he articulated.
Elfrida gave him a look that might have intoxicated nerves less accustomed to dramatic effects.
"Then whistle me a cab," she said.
Mr.Ticke whistled her a cab and put her into it.

There was the least pressure of his long fingers as he took her hand, and Elfrida forbade herself to resent it.

She felt her own beauty so much that night that she could not complain of an enthusiasm for it in such a _belle ame_ as Golightly.
They went up to tie drawing-room together, if Elfrida and the Cardiffs, and Lady Halifax immediately introduced to Miss Bell a hollow-cheeked gentleman with a long gray beard and bushy eyebrows as a fellow-countryman.

"You can compare your impressions of Hyde Park and St.Paul's," said Lady Halifax, "but _don't_ call us 'Britishers.' It really isn't pretty of you." Elfrida discovered that the bearded gentleman was principal of a college in Florida, and corresponded regularly at one time with the late Sir William.

"It is to that," said he ornately, "that I owe the honor of joining this brilliant company to-night." He went on to state that he was over there principally on account of his health--acute dyspepsia he had, it seemed he'd got out of running order generally, regularly off the track.